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TheFaithfulStone
04/06/09

In reply to Fringe's Walter Dances, While Ben's On Trial
Damn it I love the "The Black Hole." Especially the end, where the writers and director figured SURELY nobody was still watching this thing at this point, what with being chased by flying meatballs / asteroids, and telepathic robots, and the touching scene with Robot Slim Pickens.
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JesusDeSaad
04/06/09

In reply to Fringe's Walter Dances, While Ben's On Trial
The smoke monster is what corrupts all The Others.

It's been around a bit before The Black Rock. Why?

Because Richard Alpert is a pirate who arrived with The Black Rock. No going around it, the eye liner is a dead giveaway. Also the fact that anywhen the Oceanic survivors time-travelled, anywhere in time, Richard was already there for a long time. It's why he doesn't answer to anyone else from the others.

Now back to the Smoke Monster.

It's a defence mechanism. It resides within the temple. It takes people in, and it either kills them or turns them into others. At first The Others are savage as hell, but if they survive long enough they become more refined, enough to communicate and resolve matters through other means than violence.

What sort of defence mechanism? From a crashed U.F.O. residing within the temple. The civilisation that discovered it built the temple around it, and probably also built the freak big-ass Statue.

Something happened to that civilisation and they were wiped out.

Then Richard Alpert crashed with The Black Rock on the island.

What's probably also possible is that the smoke monster also takes the form of Jack's father when it suits its purposes.
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hortense
04/06/09

@JesusDeSaad: This has been debunked a million times before, but there's no eyeliner. It's just the natural coloring of Nestor Carbonell's eyes.
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icy_one
04/06/09

@JesusDeSaad: Also I don't understand what you mean by saying that Alpert is a pirate because of eyeliner. Because Depp wore eyeliner in PotC?
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/06/09

@hortense: And it's lovely.

Not that I'd be opposed to seeing him in pirate garb, though... in fact, I'll be disappointed if that doesn't ever happen. woof.

But Richard might even be older than that. Egyptian, maybe. Or a Cylon.
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CParis
04/06/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom:

Pirate, Egyptian, Cylon, nekkid statue man - I don't care what costume they put him in - I want more Richard!
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it must be bunnies
04/06/09

@CParis: He doesn't seem to age in real life as well! He is as attractive as he was on Suddenly Susan or even more so.

He was also the voice of Senor Senior Jr on Kim Possible so you gotta love him for that!
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/06/09

@it must be bunnies: He was even hot as Batmanuel on The Tick.
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BloggyMcBlogBlog
04/06/09

In reply to Fringe's Walter Dances, While Ben's On Trial
The worst Kevin Costner movie of them all, Waterworld, will come jet skiing your way on Encore at 8 PM.

You never watched The Postman, did you?
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
04/06/09

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: But the Waterworld musical was awesome.
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BullfightsOnAcid
04/06/09

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: "Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!"

Jim Carrey - The Cable Guy
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
03/30/09

In reply to Sayid's Paradox, Dean's Nude Pose, And Tricia Helfer
No Kings recap? This week's episode was pretty AWESOME! And Sebastian Stan's (Jack) acting was surprisingly good.
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jccalhoun
03/30/09

In reply to Sayid's Paradox, Dean's Nude Pose, And Tricia Helfer
An episode of the Dollhouse where this huge operation that we're told has at least 40 franchises (of course that could be a lie) is shown to be totally incompetent? Just like all the other episodes, then?

Seriously, the Dollhouse needs to have an occasional episode where the company and the tech that run this don't screw up. It just strains credibility to have them so incompetent every week and yet stay in business.
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icy_one
03/30/09

@jccalhoun: In their defense, they are being assaulted from within (possibly) and without (definitely) by someone who has a lot of knowledge about them. I didn't catch Friday's episode but so far it appears that every "screw up" is orchestrated and planned by someone else and not "whoops, poured coffee in the copier!"
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/30/09

In reply to Sayid's Paradox, Dean's Nude Pose, And Tricia Helfer
Yeaaah... advertising a movie as a modern Jumanji doesn't really appeal to me. Especially if it involves a bearded Robin Williams. Spear him! Spear him NOW!
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twophrasebark
02/19/09

In reply to Exactly How Many Kinds Of Terminators Are There In Terminator 4?
"And somewhere along the line, I think it was when I got the script for The Plan, they offered a bunch of new information that really didn't fit with what I had sort of built everything else on for the last four or five years."

Obligatory Jane Espenson comment from Twophasebark in 3, 2, 1...

This doesn't sound good.
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Plague
02/19/09

In reply to Exactly How Many Kinds Of Terminators Are There In Terminator 4?
Supernatural fans please note: the 3rd Winchester brother is only in this ONE episode. So never fear.
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Hit Bull Win Steak
02/19/09

In reply to Exactly How Many Kinds Of Terminators Are There In Terminator 4?
After the 'Cris Angel is a Douchebag" episode of Supernatural, Kripke can do no wrong IMO
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RenRen
02/19/09

In reply to Exactly How Many Kinds Of Terminators Are There In Terminator 4?
Why do I have the feeling that Smallville will try to do what "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" tried to do?
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GreyHammer
02/19/09

@RenRen: NO TIGHTS NO FLIGHTS!
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Keen314
02/19/09

@GreyHammer: That was a rule the former showrunners stuck to. We have new showrunners now.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
02/19/09

@Keen314: By, be like Lois and Clark, do you mean be awesome?
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deleteboy
02/05/09

In reply to A Surprising Wolverine Co-Star Confirmed!
My pals and I always try to figure out from where the Morning Spoilers header art comes from - you know, we come up with chestnuts like 'The Fugitive', 'The Prisoner', 'pre-Tom Baker Dr. Who' etc.

My question for this morning's header - when did Juno guest star on 'Firefly'? Anyone?
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bluehinter
02/05/09

@deleteboy: It's from the movie 'Serenity,' when they visit the planet Miranda and find the recording the scientists left behind before getting eaten/raped to death by Reavers.
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Charlie Jane Anders
02/05/09

@bluehinter: Yeah, and she's giving them a MAJOR SPOILER about the origin of the Reavers. Hence the art. :)
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92BuickLeSabre
02/05/09

In reply to A Surprising Wolverine Co-Star Confirmed!
Matt Smith + coat and scarf = Harry Potter - glasses and scar?
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bluehinter
02/05/09

@92BuickLeSabre:
For some reason, I envision one of the more flamboyant #2's from 'The Prisoner' (I'm looking at you, Peter Wyngarde)
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AngryEddy
02/05/09

In reply to A Surprising Wolverine Co-Star Confirmed!
This has nothing to do with today's fine crop of spoilers, but is that Steve the Pirate in the image for Morning Spoilers? He always makes me chuckle...
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cletar
02/05/09

@AngryEddy: Yes. It's from Joss Whedon's underappreciated masterpiece, "Dodgeball II: Beyond the Dark Nebula." Many people were put off by it's futuristic grittiness, but I thought the scenes of Steve the Pirate teaching the post-apocalyptic spacefarers the joy of dodgeball to be quite moving. "If you can dodge a spaceship, you can dodge a ball."
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
02/05/09

@cletar: I thought it was "If you can dodge a leaf in the wind, you can dodge a ball".
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Pessimippopotamus
02/05/09

@269InchDiagonal_GitEmSteveDave: He is a leaf on the wind, watch him soar.

@evildead1971: In a perverse way, I miss that show. Is that wrong?
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jbq
02/05/09

In reply to A Surprising Wolverine Co-Star Confirmed!
Matt Smith just gained another +1 for that comment. All in all, I'm surprisingly positive about the guy. But I won't say "I can hardly wait!" or anything like that, because it also means no more Tennant :-(
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bluehinter
02/05/09

@jbq:
I feel the same way.

Poor Smith is going to have his work cut out for him. I imagine it'll be a bit like Peter Davison taking over for Tom Baker-- Davison was a fine Doctor, but it's hard to take over for an actor who's made the role so iconically his own.

My worst fear isn't that Smith won't be a good Doctor. (I have faith in Moffatt not to pick somebody who isn't up to the job) It's that he'll pull an Eccleston, and only stick around for a season or two, and then try to use the series to springboard into a film career.
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WordMan
02/05/09

In reply to A Surprising Wolverine Co-Star Confirmed!
ack! No Lost or BSG spoilers today. Not even any toy spoilers! I feel so empty.
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AngryEddy
02/05/09

@WordMan: Not having LOST or BSG spoilers is a genuine cause for your suffering. Not having a toy-based "spoiler" is a blessing.
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SavoryDee (is on Team Cake Fat)
02/05/09

@AngryEddy: I dunno about Lost, but any BSG spoiler is a good spoiler. Even a toy-based one. We need our Colonial fix!
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Charlie Jane Anders
02/05/09

@SavoryDee (is on Team Cake Fat): I will try and invent a BSG toy spoiler for tomorrow. Maybe I'll glue a few different toys together and claim it's a new monstrous hybrid character.
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